Refrigerator



(No Model.)

H.. C. GOODELL.

REFRIGBRATOR.

Patented Aug. 7, -1883.

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UNITED STATES HENRY CARR GOODELL,

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REFRIGERATO'R.

SPECIFICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,882, dated August '7, 1883.

Application tiled November 27. 1882. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, HENRY CARR GoonnLL, of Atchison, in the county of Atchison and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerators; and I d`o hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same.

My invention relates to refrigerators. Its object is to simplify the construction of that class of refrigerators in which a current of air is kept in circulation between the provisionchamber and the ice-box, to give the air free passage, so that there shall be sufficient circulation without great difference in temperature between the upper and lower parts of the refrigerator, and to 'arrange the ice-box and airpassages conveniently in relation to the drainage and the door. Y

My improved refrigerator embodies a wellknown form in which the air is made to rise on one side of the ice-box, and to overflow the edge of said box and enter it, passing` over the ice, and having its exit lower down in the other side. Such a refrigerator is shown in Letters Patent No. 221,394, of November l1, 1879. I have modified this form, however, by reversing the inclination of the bottom of the ice-box, so that the drainage-pipe may be brought nearer the wall and the water turned away from the air-passage for the descending current, by placing the descending air-passage in rear of the chamber, so that upon opening the door, as is so frequently done, the cold air will not flow out so readily, whereby the use of a self-acting valve is avoided, by providing a deflector at the top of the ascending airpassage to turn down the air, and so prevent drippings from the ice falling into the provision-chamber, and, lastly, in simplifying the form of the descending air-passage.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which the iigure rep- V resents a transverse vertical section.

' The refrigerator is composed of walls A B, which may be of ordinary construction, or may be double and provided with the usual noncondueting filling. In the upper part of the refrigerator is situated the ice-chamber, which is preferably of metal, and of smaller diameter than the interior of the refrigerator. This chamber is sustained in its position by means of projecting cross-pieces, secured to it at or near its ends, engaging with grooves or mortises in the wall of the refrigerator, and is composed of a -bottom plate, a, and a back plate, b, which extends up nearly to the top of the refrigerator, suitable side plates, and a flange, d, in front. Attached to the front wall of the refrigerator, above the ice-chamber, is an inclined plate, e, the bottom of which is slightly below the upper edge of the iiange d, between which and said ange is a passage communieating with the provision-chamber. per rear rportion of the ice-chamber also communicates with the provision chamber by means of a passage, h, formed by an inclined deiiector, z', secured to the back wall of the refrigerator. The rear part of the ice-chamber extends to within a suitable distance of the back of the refrigerator, and a passage, m, is thus formed for the air to enter to the opening h. The ice is held in the ice-chamber, resting 'in the bottom thereof, and also upon the inclined plate e, by which it is prevented from falling. An ordinary cover is supplied at the top for filling the chamber, and in the front is a door, D, for each chamber.

It will be apparent now from this construction that when the door is closed, the air entering will force the air contained in the provisionchamber up through the back flue, m, and pas- The upsage h, whence it enters the ice-chamber, be-

ing given a downward direction by the deflector z-, which also prevents fragments of ice or drippings from falling into the provision-chamber. At the same time the air contained in the'ice-chamber escapes through the passage between the flange d and the'inclined plate e, at the front of the chamber, into the provisionchamber, .the result being that a constant circulation is maintained and the currents of cold and warm air do not meet, as would be the case were the door in the back and air admitted at that point. f Y

I prefer to make the iioor of the ice-chamber somewhat inclined toward the rear, as shown, and to provide at any suitable point a discharge-'pipe to carry off the melted ice.

As will be seen, my construction is exceedingly simple, but at the same time produces a thorough and effective cooling of the provisionchamber. v

It will be understood that instead of having the flange d on the front it may be `similarly constructed upon each end, though the construction rst described is the preferredform.

I have found in practice that my device is particularly well adapted to refrigerator-cars. When applied to this purpose, however, I have found it desirable to` provide double icechambers on opposite sides of the car at the top, and extending the entire length thereof,

extending from the front wall inside of and below the upper edge of the flange d, the parts being arranged as shown.

2. In a refrigerator, an ice-b0x located in the upper part, having a bottom inclined t'o the rear, a back wall, b, extending to near the top, leaving an air-passage behind said Wall, a reflector, z', with an upturned flange, (l, in front, leaving an air-passage between itself 3o and the front wall, in combination With an inclined plate, e, extending from the front wal] inside of and below the upper edge of the ange cl, the parts being' arranged as shown.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine 3 5 tothis specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. v

HENRY GARR GOODELL.

Vi tnesses JOHN T'oMLINsoN, JEssE C. GRALL. 

